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Unique charts from the pages of Classic Pop Magazine, whether it’s the best of a band, top movie soundtracks or our favourites from a particular genre.
By mixing elements of jazz, r&b and soul, a new wave of artist emerged during the mid-80s, bringing with them a certain cultured elegance to the charts. Here is our…
Top 15 Stock Aitken Waterman Albums
Mark Elliott, a Stock Aitken Waterman expert and author of The Ministry Of Pop, reveals his favourite records to come out of the hit factory… 15. Jason Donovan Ten Good Reasons (1989)…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 5-1
5 Visage: Fade to Grey In many ways, this was the spiritual sequel to our number 20 single, David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes. Visage frontman Steve Strange stepped out of…
Top 100 Singles of the Eighties: 10-6
10 Propaganda: Duel It’s actually quite incredible that Propaganda manage to gatecrash our Top 10 when they released so little music in the Eighties (and have released next-to-nothing in the…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 15-11
15 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Enola Gay Not OMD’s biggest chart hit – even Locomotion got higher – but their most well-loved. Possibly because it summed up everything that…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 20-16
20 David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes We’ve come across several singles in the Top 100 that bridged the gap between Eighties pop and Nineties pop. And this was the one…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 25-21
25 Erasure: Sometimes The first of two high-scoring entries for Erasure, and proof that if any one musician dominates UK Eighties pop – and this Top 100 – it’s Vince…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 30-26
30 Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Power of Love While Relax and Two Tribes, the first two Frankie singles, are remembered for their big, bold, world-stopping statements of sex and…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 35-31
35 Duran Duran: Rio We’re getting higher and higher up our Top 100, so the Duran Duran quotient is starting to increase (though we were taken aback that Rio –…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 40-36
40 Electronic: Getting Away With It This may be Electronic’s only appearance in our chart, but all of the group’s members – Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr and guest Neil Tennant…